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Sheila Gibson Stoodley</li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>It’s a potent one-two punch that will send collectors reeling: On February 21 in New York, <strong>Heritage Auctions</strong> will present both sets of gloves from the second heavyweight championship boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston, in 1965. The gloves will be offered as a single lot, just three months shy of the fight’s 50th anniversary. The unique offer arises from unique circumstances. Usually after a bout, the gloves are returned to the boxers themselves or their trainers. But after Ali threw his controversial “phantom punch” and ended the contest 2 minutes into the first round, Maine’s state boxing commissioner, George Russo, seized the gloves that both fighters wore in the match in Lewiston, Maine. The custom-made Frager gloves passed from Russo’s heirs to the collector who consigned them to Heritage. Bidding will start at $500,000, and Chris Ivy, director of sports auctions at Heritage, surmises “they could go well into the seven figures.”</p>
<p>“A few months back,” Ivy says, “nobody really knew of the existence of these gloves. A lot of collectors thought they had been lost to time. Fifty years later, to have them both come out and make their debut in the collecting community is really exciting.” (<a href="http://sports.ha.com/c/auction-home.zx?saleNo=7130&amp;ic=Items-OpenAuctions-Open-BrowseAuctionInfo-071713" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >ha.com</a>)</p>
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</figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even">
Sheila Gibson Stoodley</li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>It seemed only a matter of time before the market for Masters memorabilia reflected the annual feeding frenzy for Masters tickets. A turning point may have come last year, when three exceptional Masters-related items made their auction debuts. The most coveted was the green jacket that the Augusta National Golf Club presented to Horton Smith, the winner of the inaugural tournament in 1934. It is the same type of jacket that the club will award at the conclusion of this year’s tournament, which takes place April 10 through 13. Last year’s auction lots also included two of the three Masters championship trophies won by Sam Snead.</p>
<p>The Smith jacket commanded $682,229 in a sale conducted by the aptly named Green Jacket Auctions. The price established an auction record for golf memorabilia. Heritage Auctions sold Snead’s 1954 Masters trophy—the first one ever to go to auction—for $191,200 and his 1949 trophy for $143,400. (He also won the tournament in 1952.)</p>
<p>Long believed to be lost, the Smith jacket had hung in an heir’s closet for decades until that man contacted Green Jacket Auctions, an 8-year-old golf-focused auction house that operates online. “No one had any idea it would go for that kind of money,” says Green Jacket Auctions’ cofounder Bob Zafian, who is based in Denville, N.J. “I knew it was special, and I thought we might break records with it. We had probably seven or eight aggressive bidders on it from all over the world.”</p>
<p>Three years ago, a featured lot at a Heritage auction was a green jacket that belonged to Bobby Jones, the golfing legend who founded Augusta National. It sold for $310,000, which is a Heritage house record for golf memorabilia but is less than half the sale price of the Smith jacket. A...Tue, 01 Apr 2014 07:00:00 +0000Sheila Gibson Stoodley548076 at http://robbreport.comGoods & Services: Nature Callinghttp://robbreport.com/sports-leisure/goods-services-nature-calling
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Shaun Tolson</li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Jesse Loomis began to tire of snowboarding during the winter of 2008. He’d been riding boards for almost two decades, but as a father of three, he no longer took the same risks on the mountain that he once had as a fearless 20-year-old. The overall experience was beginning to grow stale, but his kids were approaching ages that would allow Loomis to introduce them to the sport. On a whim, he grabbed his old Burton Elite 150—his first snowboard from the late 1980s—and trudged up the hill behind his home in Vermont to show his kids what snowboarding was all about. “I wanted to reconnect with my youth and have a different snowboarding experience,” he explains. “I wanted to experience something new. I hadn’t ridden it in 20 years, so it was about bringing a little freshness back to the sport.”</p>
<p>The ride did the trick, and it inspired Loomis to create a new board that could deliver the surflike feeling that his classic board provided. The challenge, he discovered, was designing a board that could deliver that uninhibited sensation without sacrificing the performance features that today’s snowboarding audience demands. By the following fall, Loomis had thought through his design and retreated to his woodworking shop to build a revolutionary snowboard. What emerged, according to Loomis, was a board that worked perfectly. Today, the 40-year-old is the sole proprietor of <strong>PowderJet</strong> (<a href="http://www.powderjets.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >www.powderjets.com</a>), a company that Loomis established to build and sell his wooden snowboards in limited numbers.</p>
<p>In the beginning, Loomis offered only one board—the Gypsy ($550)—which comes in two sizes, one slightly less and one slightly more than 5 feet long. While it includes modern snowboard features like a reverse camber, a concave tail (for a surflike experience), and a deep tapered sidecut (for quick turns), the Gypsy is not equipped with metal edges, which makes it a board designed exclusively for powder. “The edgeless boar...Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:27:55 +0000Shaun Tolson263476 at http://robbreport.comTargeted Locationshttp://robbreport.com/art-collectibles/targeted-locations
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Shaun Tolson</li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Each Beretta Gallery site—from New York to London to Paris—was chosen specifically for its locale, and also for the influx of international visitors that each city attracts. But according to Ian Harrison, general manager of the Dallas gallery (<a href="http://www.dallas.berettagallery.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >www.dallas.berettagallery.com</a>), his city’s diverse gun-buying crowd, combined with a law that allows for the possession of concealed firearms, makes the Dallas gallery a unique shopping experience not only for its varied inventory but for the broad cross section of customers that walk through its doors on a daily basis. “We have the good ole boy crowd that deer-hunts; we have the competition crowd; we have the collectors who buy our gallery-grade guns; and we have an enormous pistol inventory here,” Harrison says. “It’s amazing to me that we get people walking in our store that don’t look like they’re a high-dollar gun customer, but they are. I’ll have a guy who drove here from Oklahoma in his farm clothes and will plunk down $50,000 for a gun that he’s going to take hunting.”</p>
<p>The 1,700-square-foot store (mid-sized by Beretta Gallery standards) is positioned within Highland Park Village—the oldest shopping center in the country—and is neighbor to a number of high-end retailers including Hermès, Harry Winston, and Chanel, to name a few. As Robert Booz, the international director for Beretta Galleries, explains, Dallas is home to the greatest concentration of safari hunters in the United States, and the gallery’s inventory reflects that. It also reflects the area’s prominent wing-shooting community, with a taxidermy display of more than 100 different North American fowl species. “We don’t follow the cookie-cutter approach to retailing,” Booz says. “Our approach is comple...Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:33:41 +0000Shaun Tolson25671 at http://robbreport.comHandcrafted Heritagehttp://robbreport.com/art-collectibles/handcrafted-heritage
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Shaun Tolson</li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>If you’re familiar with Joel Oppenheimer’s gallery of natural history art in Chicago, you likely would expect a similar environment and shopping experience at its sister establishment, the Audubon Gallery (<a href="http://www.audubonart.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >www.audubonart.com</a>) in Charleston, S.C. In some respects, that’s what you’ll find; but the Charleston storefront differs in a handful of ways. Director Burton Moore has outfitted the gallery with significant examples of contemporary and antique sporting art—everything from etchings and paintings to hand-carved wooden hunting decoys. When Moore was growing up, his father worked as a professional sporting artist and amassed a noteworthy collection of antique hunting decoys. Moore’s upbringing led him to integrate similar works of art into his gallery. “I’ve added my own lifestyle to this store,” he says. “I love to hunt and fish and bird-watch, so I’ve taken all of that and put it into one store.”</p>
<p>Beyond the subject matter, it’s the method of production that guides Moore when determining which new products to introduce. “My focus here is that things be handmade,” he says. “If it’s a print, I want it to be an engraving or etching or a painting done by hand. None of my carvers use power tools or Dremel sets; they’re all working with traditional woodworking tools.” When it comes to the hand-carved decoys for sale in Moore’s shop, most range from several hundred dollars up to $10,000, though Moore acknowledges that there are plenty of antique decoys out there that are even more valuable. “Several of my carvers are making decoys that you <em>could </em>throw out in a marsh and hunt over, but most will end up right on the mantel,” he says. “Not too many people would want to throw a $5,000 wooden decoy in the water and start shooting over it.”</p>
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<a href="/content/amanda-millin">Amanda Millin</a>
</li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p dir="LTR">A Swedish firearms maker that has produced limited-edition hunting rifles displaying design themes ranging from the Vikings to Ernest Hemingway, VO Vapen (<a href="http://www.vovapen.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >www.vovapen.com</a>) recently introduced its sixth collection, the VO Falcon Edition. The series, which will comprise the rifle shown here plus four customized versions—priced at $850,000 apiece—is intended as a tribute to falconry, a pastime that hunting rifles helped push into obsolescence. The VO Falcon Edition references falconry’s historic ties to the Middle East, where this sport of employing trained falcons to hunt small prey may have originated, possibly by 2000 BC or earlier. The rifles will be engraved with images of falcons and forged from a modern version of Damascus steel, a layered form of steel that bladesmiths in the Middle East and perhaps elsewhere were using as early as the third century. The steel, which displays waterlike mottling, was prized because it could be honed to an edge that was exceptionally sharp yet still resistant to shattering. Indeed, legend has it that blades of Damascus steel could cut through a rifle barrel. Damascus-steel swords remained prevalent until the mid-18th century, when the required materials became scarce. About this same time, the popularity of falconry was waning, as hunters preferred to arm themselves with rifles instead of birds.</p>
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<a href="/content/jill-newman">Jill Newman</a>
</li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p dir="ltr">In Frank Gehry’s world, it is a small landscape: a chunk of real estate approximately 40 square inches topped by 32 structures. But Gehry has always been fascinated by the game of chess, and when the architect turned his attention to redesigning the chessboard, he unleashed his creativity on the project.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It is tempting to look for architectural references in the bone-china game pieces—perhaps to his billowing Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, or to the rippling skyscraper at 8 Spruce Street in New York. But Gehry’s inspiration for this project for Tiffany &amp; Co. (<a href="http://www.tiffany.com" target="_blank">www.tiffany.com</a>), which will be produced to order for $25,000, was simply the roles of the pieces and the hierarchy of the game. "My queen has a beautiful crown and a soft body," he says, "but she holds her own next to the king, who is more angular and sharp: He has more height, but she has the power. The bishop is all miter, and the rook and knight are my take on a horse and castle." The pawns are topped with a "cannon," and Gehry likens the assembled tableau to a cityscape. "What I love the most is watching a game in progress," he says, "and watching the composition change." rel="nofollow" </p>
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